BPSS Clearance Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) Clearance
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire with a requirement for BPSS Clearance qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 27 42
Rank change year-on-year -51 +15 +6
Contract jobs citing BPSS Clearance 9 19 12
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 1.17% 5.57% 2.71%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.06% 22.89% 10.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 15 11
10th Percentile £318 £208 £375
25th Percentile £335 £209 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £220 £600
Median % change year-on-year +59.09% -63.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £365 £225 £704
90th Percentile £425 £231 £720
Yorkshire median daily rate £480 £220 £575
% change year-on-year +118.18% -61.74% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £13.85 - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £13.85 £40.00 -
% change year-on-year -65.38% - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South Yorkshire

BPSS Clearance falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 178 83 119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 23.12% 24.34% 26.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 56 79
10th Percentile £345 £164 £375
25th Percentile £417 £220 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £460 £575
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -20.00% +9.52%
75th Percentile £623 £591 £688
90th Percentile £703 £650 £720
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
Median hourly rate £13.85 £13.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.59% -73.00% +463.70%
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £30.05
% change year-on-year -32.93% +24.79% +117.60%

BPSS Clearance
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing BPSS Clearance relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

BPSS Clearance job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

BPSS Clearance
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing BPSS Clearance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing BPSS Clearance

BPSS Clearance
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BPSS Clearance in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for BPSS Clearance in South Yorkshire

BPSS Clearance
Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing BPSS Clearance.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing BPSS Clearance

BPSS Clearance
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BPSS Clearance within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 17 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Sheffield -56 9 £350 +59.09% 1
BPSS Clearance
Yorkshire

BPSS Clearance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) npm
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
Development Applications
1 6 (66.67%) Git
2 3 (33.33%) Android Studio
2 3 (33.33%) Gradle
3 2 (22.22%) Babel
3 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
3 2 (22.22%) JIRA
3 2 (22.22%) Postman
3 2 (22.22%) webpack
4 1 (11.11%) CocoaPods
4 1 (11.11%) SonarQube
4 1 (11.11%) Xcode
General
1 2 (22.22%) Banking
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Military
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Developer
2 3 (33.33%) Android Developer
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) iOS Developer
3 1 (11.11%) IT Support
3 1 (11.11%) IT Support Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Lead DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) Lead DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Programmer
3 1 (11.11%) React Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) JSON
1 4 (44.44%) RESTful
2 2 (22.22%) Bootstrap
2 2 (22.22%) CSS
2 2 (22.22%) CSS3
2 2 (22.22%) HTML
2 2 (22.22%) HTML5
2 2 (22.22%) Jest
2 2 (22.22%) lodash
2 2 (22.22%) React
2 2 (22.22%) Redux
2 2 (22.22%) REST
3 1 (11.11%) DOM
3 1 (11.11%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Mobile App
2 1 (11.11%) Data Structures
2 1 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Android
2 1 (11.11%) Apple iOS
2 1 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Agile
2 5 (55.56%) DevOps
3 4 (44.44%) Application Security
3 4 (44.44%) Architectural Patterns
3 4 (44.44%) Design Patterns
3 4 (44.44%) Memory Management
3 4 (44.44%) Performance Optimisation
4 3 (33.33%) Android Development
4 3 (33.33%) Mobile Application Development
5 2 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (22.22%) Sprint Planning
5 2 (22.22%) TDD
5 2 (22.22%) Test Automation
5 2 (22.22%) User Experience
5 2 (22.22%) Wireframes
6 1 (11.11%) Atomic Design
6 1 (11.11%) Computer Science
6 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (11.11%) Sprint Retrospective
6 1 (11.11%) Story Points
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Java
1 3 (33.33%) Kotlin
2 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
3 1 (11.11%) Objective-C
3 1 (11.11%) Swift
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (11.11%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Accessibility
1 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Ansible
1 1 (11.11%) Packer
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) AppDynamics